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Obama plan to boost teen employment could be an uphill battle

January 5, 2012

Uncle Sam used to reach into his deep pockets to pay for pro­grams to keep teens off the streets in the summer and instead get some work expe­ri­ence. But, with fed­eral budget cut­ting the norm, those days are over. So, on Thursday, the White House kicked off its efforts to encourage the pri­vate sector to step up their hiring of young people.

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Last year, for instance, the Brook­ings Insti­tu­tion reported that it took twice as long to fill sci­ence, tech­nology, engi­neering, and math, or STEM, jobs as non-​​​​STEM posts. Mean­while, aca­d­e­mics like […]

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